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		andreasvc on May 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unicode in Python 3 So how do you then deal with problem in the original blog post: a filename that is a non-UTF8 byte string? Surrogates? A separate byte string type?

pcwalton on May 12, 2014 [–]

Use a separate byte string type. The problem is that paths are not UTF-8. That's a fixable problem: just let the type system know about it.

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